Health and Social Care
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Anne-Marie’s reflections on the NCS Forum
26th October 2022 by healthsocialcare
Anne-Marie Monaghan, Adult Social Care Lead with the Scottish Association of Social Work with more than 40 years of experience in community work, social work and social care. Anne-Marie Chaired our first National Care Service Forum 3rd October 2022 in Perth and shares her reflections on the event. “What a view!” In my introduction I...
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Toyin’s reflections on the NCS Forum
21st October 2022 by healthsocialcare
Toyin Adenugba-Okpaje, a frontline social worker, Ph.D. candidate, social work tutor, SASW vice-chair, and Co-Covener of ME Social Workers in Scotland. My interest in the National Care Service (NCS) stems from a passion whereby Scotland can have a social care service that I will be happy to use comfortably if my circumstances were to change....
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Speeches from the first National Care Service Forum
18th October 2022 by Heather Woods
The first National Care Service Forum was held on Monday 3rd October. The theme of the Forum was “working together” and this was captured in the collaborative discussions and speeches that took place throughout the day. Over 300 people joined us in-person and a further 300 people joined online. Hundreds of people of people shared their...
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National Care Service Forum 2022: Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi speech
18th October 2022 by healthsocialcare
Below are the concluding remarks from Kiana Kalantar-Hormozi‘s speech at the first National Care Service Forum Monday 3rd October 2022 at Perth Concert Hall. Kiana is an artist, filmmaker and activist and shared her lived experience of social care at the Forum. At the end of the day, we all need to care – care about...
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National Care Service Forum 2022 – working together
26th September 2022 by Zarina Naseem
There is just one week to go until our first ever National Care Service Forum on 3 October at Perth Concert Hall. This event will bring a wide range of people with an interest in community health and social care together to discuss ideas and ambitions for the National Care Service. There’s still space for...
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Designing the National Care Service – let’s get started!
22nd September 2022 by Fiona McAra
This week we were very excited to announce the first big opportunity to get involved in designing the National Care Service (NCS) – the launch of our Lived Experience panel for adults with experience of social care in Scotland. Alongside this we have also opened a stakeholder register to ensure that stakeholders have the opportunity...
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National Care Service: why it’s everyone’s business
8th September 2022 by Anna Kynaston
I’m Anna Kynaston and I’m Deputy Director in the Social Care and National Care Service Development Directorate. Over the last 12 months I have been listening to the views of people, stakeholders and public partners about community health and social care in Scotland. As part of that I have been lucky enough to get out...
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Care homes: why ‘My Health My Care My Home’ matters
15th July 2022 by Kirstin Millar
Dr Paul Baughan, GP and Professional Adviser to CMO on Ageing and Health reflects on the development of ‘My Health My Care My Home’, a newly published healthcare framework for adults living in care homes.
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Consultation for data strategy launched
25th May 2022 by Digital Health and Care Team
The Digital Health and Care Data Strategy team in Scottish Government raises awareness of the launch of the formal consultation on the Data Strategy for Health and Social Care.
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Please mind the gap
11th May 2022 by Carol Sinclair - Chief Officer, Public Health Scotland
In this blog, Carol Sinclair explores how good quality health and social care data can improve health and care services. She discusses how the Data Strategy is helping to pave the way in improving gaps around health and care data.
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